Effective Instruction – The keystone to school reform

Direct Instruction Factsheet

Good to Great Schools Australia supports schools to deliver the Direct Instruction (DI) program which combines explicit instruction pedagogy with a comprehensive curriculum, student assessment and scripted lessons.

Comparing DI and EDI

Direct Instruction – What it means for parents

Our vision at Good to Great Schools Australia is ‘Great Teachers delivering effective instruction and every child reaching their full potential’. Direct Instruction (DI) helps schools deliver this vision as it ensures students learn faster, more efficiently and more effectively.

Direct Instruction – What it means for teaching assistants

Direct Instruction – A Primary Teacher’s perspective

This case study runs through Miss Evans’ day, from getting prepared before school to ensure she is ready to teach ‘bell-to-bell’, to delivering various DI sessions throughout the day that include the curriculum subjects such as Maths, Reading, Writing and Spelling.

Direct Instruction – A Foundation Teacher’s perspective

Direct Instruction: A Principal’s perspective

Within ‘Direct Instruction: A Principal’s perspective’ we take a look at a typical day for one of our principals.
At the time of writing, Finn Buckley was a principal of Cape York Aboriginal Australian Academy’s Hope Vale Campus.

Managing Behaviour

The successful implementation of Direct Instruction requires effective behaviour management. The program that Good to Great Schools Australia supports is based on Positive Behaviour Interventions and Support (PBIS).

Explicit Direct Instruction: What it means for parents

Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) gives teachers a step-by-step guide to creating and delivering effective lessons that maximise student learning across all areas of the Australian Curriculum in primary and secondary schools.